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Damon Achey, Senior Software Engineer

Damon@Achey.Net | Colorado Springs, CO | 425-761-2313
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Summary

Senior software engineer with two decades of experience shipping production systems across a wide range of stacks and domains, from embedded OS kernels to distributed cloud services. I'm language and framework agnostic by trade, quick to learn new stacks, and now build using AI assisted, agentic development workflows as a core part of the toolkit. Looking for engineering roles building or applying AI powered developer tooling and systems.

Technical Skills

AI-Assisted Development: Claude Code, OpenCode, GitHub Copilot, agentic coding workflows, prompt engineering
Core Competencies: Distributed systems, API/service integration, CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, test-driven development, Agile/Scrum
Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Linux, Git
Languages & Frameworks (representative): C#, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, SQL, React, .NET, AngularJS

Experience

Echo Global Logistics
2023-Present
Senior Software Engineer

• Designed and implemented integrations between existing invoicing and accounting systems and Workday, ensuring seamless synchronization of financial data across both platforms.
• Mentored an intern to full productivity, enabling them to make valuable contributions to the live product within a two-month period.

Progressive Insurance
Enterprise Resource Organization 2014-2023
IT Applications Programmer Senior

• Implemented custom internal component versioning and CI/CD system for corporate wide integration into multiple enterprise wide platforms.
• Worked on large scale enterprise project team (~200 people) to overhaul the entire customer portal experience, with my agile team focusing primarily on the payment and billing management site components across the full web and service stack.
• Integration of large scale master data management (MDM) / customer relationship management (CRM) package into existing legacy infrastructure.
• Participated in hiring interview process for new hires, leading technical interviews and whiteboard coding exercises.

Progressive Insurance (Precision Management)
Enterprise Resource Organization 2013-2014
IT Applications Programmer Senior/Vendor

• Developed WCF/SOAP services for requesting, caching, and processing driver motor vehicle records resulting in significant savings on one of the single largest new customer acquisition costs.
• Maintained and updated large legacy code base for multiple applications dealing with management of data external to the company.
• Participated in all phases of software development life cycle.

Susquehanna International Group
Books and Records 2012-2013
Software Developer

• Contributed to the design of next generation high throughput, low latency, distributed messaging system for high frequency trade reporting.
• Worked with trading systems and compliance teams to ensure proper reporting while supporting concurrent legacy and future systems.
• Quickly understand complex messaging schema describing complex financial interactions.
• Provided tools and support for live systems monitoring.

Microsoft Corporation (SmarTek21)
Bing Commerce Platform 2009-2011
Software Design Engineer/Vendor

• Designed and implemented process management framework to control crowdsourced product quality assurance.
• Worked in an Agile environment employing test driven design principles throughout the project lifecycle.
• Managed relations with external workers and offshore teams for rapid improvement and problem resolution.
• Developed an instant search engine for internal business rules data allowing continuous synchronization between US, and overseas teams.
• Designed a componentized job service engine and web interface for reporting and statistical analysis of internal processes.
• Worked with Microsoft Research to design and implement tests for improving machine learning toolset.

Microsoft Corporation
Windows Mobile Division 2002-2008
Software Design Engineer

• Developed distributed code quality suite to validate code changes across large array of hardware platforms. Improved entire code base stability and reduced development blockage by an order of magnitude.
• Led internal product development, planning, and scheduling for five person team ensuring product completeness and schedule targets were achieved.
• Gave presentations at company wide seminars on best development practices.
• Hardware integration developer in charge of maintaining and porting new development platforms. Direct work with external hardware partners to resolve design issues.
• Implemented dynamic OS upgrade support for Windows Mobile. Including the execute in place from ROM and update on demand from devices in the field.
• Maintained binary image update utility across kernel driver model migration.

Microsoft Corporation
Windows Mobile Division 2000-2002
Software Design Engineer/Test

• Redesigned Windows CE binary image building tool set. Gained in-depth knowledge of several Windows CE core areas including: compression, executable (PE) file formats, ROM formatting, and kernel driver handling.
• Designed test automation for image update processes
• Implemented web portal and device side logging to track internal stress testing results.

Microsoft Corporation
Desktop Operating Systems, Windows ME 1999-2000
Software Design Engineer/Test

• Implemented 1394 debugging support for legacy free versions of Windows ME.
• Developed tests for PCI, CardBus, and PCMCIA.

Education

Lehigh University
BS Computer Engineering